Himeros
Himeros ( Greek Ἵμερος , longing ) is the personification of loving longing in Greek mythology .
Himeros is first mentioned as a desire for love in Homer . In Hesiod he appears personified together with Eros as the companion of the newborn Aphrodite , who is accompanied by them to Olympus and lives with the Charites near the Muses . With Lukian of Samosata he is the son of Aphrodite. The late antique rhetor Himerios as well as the late antique poets Quintus of Smyrna and Nonnos of Panopolis name him next to Eileithyia and the Erinyen as those present at the death of Semeles .
Pausanias reports on a statue of Himeros by the sculptor Skopas , which was erected with a statue of Eros and one of Pothos next to the Aphrodite practice in the Aphrodite temple in Megara .
literature
- Otto Höfer : Himeros . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Col. 2661 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Antoine Hermary: Himeros / Himeroi . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume V, Zurich / Munich 1990, pp. 425-426.
- Harvey Alan Shapiro: Personifications in Greek art. The representation of abstract concepts, 600-400 BC Akanthus, 1993. ISBN 3905083051 . Pp. 110-120.
Web links
- Himeros in the Theoi Project (English)